Steve Trachsel might not have been the hardest-throwing pitcher or one with the best stuff on a staff, but the sixteen-year right-hander made up for it with his ability to take the ball every fifth day and provide consistency. From 1996 through the 2004 season, Trachsel made 290 starts, which was tied with Brad Radke for the fourth-most in baseball. Trachsel’s 1,775 1/3 innings pitched...
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Devin Mesoraco is thankful for the opportunity he was afforded to play Major League Baseball for as long as he did. Though his career wasn’t long and he dealt with three surgeries in a matter of thirteen months that marred his swing after an impressive breakout season in 2014, Mesoraco doesn’t look back with regret. Rather, he comes across with the rightful mindset that he did what...
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Neil Walker, who played in over 1,300 major league games with six different organizations from 2009 through 2020, hopes that one word will accurately sum up his professional career, which came to an end when he announced his retirement in April of this year: Grinder. Growing up in the Pittsburgh area, idolizing many of the players from the nineties Pirates teams, Walker dreamed of one day...
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Growing up in Hawaii, Jordan Yamamoto knew that he’d really need to impress in order to make his dream of pitching in the major leagues happen. The right-hander took the mentality of not only trying to be the best in Hawaii, but trying to stand out in the entire United States. The high school Yamamoto attended and was later drafted out of, Saint Louis High School in Honolulu, was well...
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Mike Puma, the longtime New York Mets beat reporter for the New York Post, has seen and heard quite a bit during his time covering the team in some capacity over the last two-plus decades. During his time with the team, Puma has witnessed a myriad amount of events both on and off the field. From the 2000 Subway World Series; the 2006 season in which the Mets looked to be the best team in the...
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